Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water | Safewater | Water | US EPA

Posted by Matt in November 27th, 2009 | no comment

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If you were thinking about using bleach to disinfect your drinking water then you would be wrong. Bleach starts degrading after about 6 months which means you regularly need to replace your bleach bottle.
A better way to disinfect water is to use calcium hypochlorite powder instead of liquid bleach or sodium hypochlorite.
By-the-way, always disinfect your [...]

What the World Will Look Like by 2050

Posted by Matt in April 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Geopolitical, general, Agglomerations, Brief History, Drinking Water, Droughts, Economist, Face Off, Freshwater Resources, Glimpse, Half Of The World, History Of The Future, Imagine, Islam And Christianity, Islam Christianity, Jacques Attali, Pirates, Political Scientist, Ripple, Stratosphere, Twenty First Century, Unpredictable Weather, Urban Growth, Urban Infrastructures, Water Balloon Fight, Weather Systems, world-war-II

Attali’s predictions offer a glimpse into the future that is both provocative and petrifying. (See 10 ideas that are changing the world right now.)
Imagine a world where pirates run amok, blowing themselves up in European city centers; where wars are ignited over lack of drinking water; where a global face-off between Islam and Christianity makes [...]

China drought deprives millions of drinking water

Posted by Matt in February 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Water, 1 Million, Billions Of Dollars, Cattle, China Drought, Disaster Relief, Disbursement, Drinking Water, Drought, Face Shortages, Farmers, Half A Century, North China, Relief Officials, State Television, Subsidies

Millions of people and cattle in north China face shortages of drinking water because of a severe drought, the government said on Saturday, promising to speed up disbursement of billions of dollars of subsidies to farmers.
State television quoted disaster relief officials as saying 4.4 million people and 2.1 million cattle lacked adequate drinking water. Official [...]

India’s Threatened Water Supplies

Posted by Matt in October 23rd, 2007 | no comment

Published in India, Water, pollution, Birth Defects, Diseases, Drinking Water, Gastrointestinal, Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Health Officials, Hexavalent Chromium, Infertility, Ore Mines, pollution, Population, Times Of India, tuberculosis, Water Pollution, Water Supplies

With the largest open-cast chromite ore mines in the world, Indiaâ€™s Sukinda valley endures significant pollution; 60 percent of the drinking water is contaminated with carcinogenic hexavalent chromium, affecting nearly 3 million people. Health officials say 85 percent (Times of India) of the population suffers from â€œpollution-inducedâ€ diseases and fatalities, such as gastrointestinal bleeding, tuberculosis, [...]

Review: Costco’s Emergency Food Storage

Posted by Matt in July 11th, 2007 | no comment

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Costco sells a 23lb bucket of food for emergencies that’s called Emergency Food Storage. You can find information about this item at NutriStorage.Com. I bought one for about $100 from Costco the other day, and I wanted to review what I found.
Opening the bucket is very easy by clipping the strip that goes around [...]